Social and economic impacts of Canada Bread closure deemed "devastating":

The President of the North Bay and District Labour Council is hoping an action plan can be put together to help stem local job losses.

Henri Giroux (pictured below) says 62 full-time jobs disappearing with the impending Canada Bread closure is devastating for the people involved and the economy.

The company is closing it’s North Bay operation August 5th.

Giroux says it’s time to talk with companies to find out why they’re leaving and find incentives to keep them here.

He also says they’d like to talk with the city about bringing on new industries here and how they can do that together.

Giroux says, “62 jobs is a lot of people that will be looking for jobs where there is mostly just retail, part-time, precarious work that’s in the area right now.  Devastating for those people that just lost their job and I feel bad for them”